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Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Lost on South African roads.


I went to the beach with a couple of other people; it is about an hour and a half’s drive if the roads are clear and calm.

It was pretty calm and clear and we stopped at a garage to have some breakfast, after that we went straight to the beach and hit the water, it was cloudy and looked like rain, that did not stop us, so we ran into the ocean and hit the incoming waves.

The water was surprisingly warm and enjoyable, the sun also started coming out a bit and it was getting hotter. 

After it got hot and we had out fun in the water and from digging a big hole in the middle of the beach, we decided to leave for the next event.

We went to a Shark marine world, there are lots of shops and it is next to the ocean, plus there are plenty of things to do such as watching dolphins and the aquarium, and a lizard place and other thing, obviously it is sad to see all the animals because you know where they come from and what they could have had an now they are all in cages and in stressed environments with thousands of people looking at them and screaming at them and touching the cages and just people.

So we were there for a couple of hours and we did not do much as it all costs money and time, we didn’t really have both lol.

So the time came and we had to get moving home, we were driving in 2 cars and the one car had to follow the other, we were in a city we do not know and we were relying on boards with signs and indications etc. 

As we were looking for the high way home we had to drive through the city, I got pulled over by speed cops (traffic police) he asked me for my license and I showed him, he checked my whole car and gave me some looks, he also seemed really tired, the he said we can go. 

After this thing on the new road got complicated, we took wrong turns went into roads that could only lead you one way, we had some problems and then the cars lost each other. 

No one in either car had a phone with money on it to call or sms each other and we really had no way of making contact, we could not even make turn around because of the way the roads was designed, it was straight and forwards with many cars. 

I took the point of assuming that the other car will simply go to home, as that will be the practical thing to do in such a situation and they did do that. 

The other car took the right wrong turn, lol and we took the wrong wrong turn, basically opposite ways. 

We carried on driving straight looking for a board sign that would direct us to the main highway back home, we continued driving and looking, there was not off turn points for kilometers, so we should only continue. 

As we continued we saw the environment change from being nice clean and with rich people to more of a dirty environment with uglier cars and poor people, as we continued driving it gradually got worse, poorer people and more, it made the rich people seem like a speckle so many poor people was there.

Then we came to a really bad area and I was thinking by myself, at the beach I thought wow, so many people that still have money, because the beach was full of people with money and really nice cars and clothes and houses, but as we went the wrong way my perspective changed very quickly on how many people really have money. 

Thousands still had lots of money and they are literally in a different world then the millions that live quit a distance away in a really shit area and environment. 

I realized we had to get out and we are lost, people were starting to look at us and in the poor areas there are only a couple of cars on the road, in the rich area there are thousands of cars and its really busy, the poor people are walking everywhere or taking busses (taxis) in the thousands. 

If all those poor people would have to go to the rich area just for one day, it will be fucked and the rich will be in the shit hole in no time with the rest. 

We made a turn at a circle that we found, but did not dare to stop anywhere, we were sticking out quit clearly and this becomes a target for the poor. 

How did we get to go so far and not turn around earlier, because we were looking for signs and in the poor areas people just do not care to put up signs and give directions, the boards probably gets stolen anyway. And there was just no way for us to find any way out, so many different ways we could go but where would it lead us? We cannot get out and ask for directions, we will get robbed, mugged or stabbed and even raped, depends on the situation. 

So we went back all the way, it took a whole wile and once we saw a petrol station we stopped and climbed out and I went inside and asked for directions, the guy there was asking me how did you get here if you cannot get back and he laugh, I said it was a new environment for me and I do not know the road.
He laughed again when he heard that there was not even one board sign on the road to show us the way – and he said, this is (can remember the name) and not our home town, down here you are alone.
And then he gave me directions and we got out after a while and went home.

It was a real eye opener for me to see how in a distance of about 20km (not that much) you can go from really rich and healthy people to the complete opposite of it in 25min.  In a type of way that looks like it is slowly happening, rich, middle class, poor, poorer, and poorest and then finally get out. 

We have to do something about the way the world works and what we are accepting and allowing in it, when will the time come that those millions of poor people that has to watch the few thousands having everything and enjoying it without considering them and literally physically with force take it all for them because we denied it to them as equals. It will be brutal and the rich will stand no chance, be happy poor people can’t read this blog, because it they could they would have gotten angry and probably realize what I am saying and what they have as power in the masses. To simply take, they have nothing to lose.

I stand for a solution. Where all life is equal and exists in dignity and respect of each other.

solution for 2020..